[A satire on gin-drinking] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[A satire on gin-drinking] [graphic].
Alternative Title
Gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny ...
Contributor
Bowles, John, 1701-1779.
Toms, W. H. approximately 1700-approximately 1750.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created
[1766?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
Robert Sayer?
Abstract

A satire on gin drinking: In a cellar distillery with a large cask a group of male figures with the heads of monkeys and women with heads of cats are drinking heavily with some vomiting

Description
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print.
Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II.
Reversed copy of a print published ca. 1730. Publication information for this later version based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Publisher alternatively identified as John Bowles; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.29
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The gin-retailers (if there's any) who can by a licence get a penny, are those, who in such manner use it, as if their study was t'abuse it ...
Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner. Plate number indicates that it may be one of a series of reissues of Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger's satires of people with animal heads, published in the 1760s.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i; May 1954;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 28.7 x 25 cm, on sheet 34 x 29 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
766.00.00.08+ Impression 1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1766
Etchings England London 1766
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Interiors
Basements
Gin
Barrels
Drinking vessels
Lanterns
Light fixtures
Torches
Crutches
Amputees
Vomiting
Peg legs
Pipes (Smoking)
Smoking
Subjects
Interiors
Basements
Gin
Barrels
Drinking vessels
Lanterns
Light fixtures
Torches
Crutches
Amputees
Vomiting
Peg legs
Pipes (Smoking)
Smoking
England > 1766
England > London > 1766

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8427653
Object ID (OID)
10713286

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